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Alix Laine, the hand-to-hand grip

2022-05-24T14:53:32.998Z


PORTRAIT – In her second novel, this former journalist recounts the ascendancy of a school principal over a student, who lets herself be dispossessed of her body. before reclaiming it.


She likes to sit in the middle of a room with a novel.

This is his secret technique for transmitting a love of reading to his children.

An old habit from his mother.

Curled up in the living room of her apartment in the 16th arrondissement, her pretty legs of a former dancer crossed, Alix Laine welcomes us a bit like the big sister of a friend.

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The former journalist, who co-founded the literary podcast “Trois petits points”, has just published

Musclée

(Robert Laffont), her second novel.

This is the story of Marie, 20, who goes to study journalism at a prestigious university in New York.

She finds herself under the influence of her director, a man much older than her, charismatic and paunchy.

Alix Laine, inspired by the #MeToo movement, weaves her novel on the famous gray zone, a delicate subject to deal with if ever there was one.

Her heroine does not go on a crusade against men.

After watching, passively, her body extracting itself, she saves herself by strengthening her flesh...

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Source: lefigaro

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